he spends time reading, fastg, wandering the city. there's this almost monk-like existence. >> narrator: as he walked the streets, friends say he was affected by the poverty all around him. >> i saw a transformatn in the barry i han met in occidental. he got very serious and lessi lighthearted and our conversations were more about serious things, wouldn't want to go around the bar, h ae a drink, was worried about poor people,r, didn't care about getting rich. i mean, that's my opinion of dull at that time. >> there is one great letter where he describes how all of his choom gang friends are sort of getting into the mainstream and his pakistani friends are all moving toward the business world. and to him all of that seems too small, too categored, tooed limiting. >> "caught without a class, a structure, or tradition to support me, in a sense the choice to take a different path is made for me. the only way to assuage my feelings of isolation are to absorb all the traditions, classes; make them mine, me theirs." >> and, he's trying to sa